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Fact Sheets

Thursday, November 03, 2016

Office of Civil Liberties, Privacy and Transparency

Fact Sheets

The following fact sheet describes this IC Governance Framework in detail, outlining the sources of imposed requirements and detailing how all three branches of government are involved. This is the first in a series – please check back soon for additional fact sheets on Section 702, FISA, the USA Freedom Act, and CLPT.

The ODNI Office of Civil Liberties, Privacy, and Transparency (CLPT) works to ensure that the Intelligence Community carries out its national security mission in a manner that protects privacy and civil liberties, while providing appropriate transparency to the public. This is part of the broader, multi-layered framework of U.S. rules and oversight, designed to ensure that we exercise our authorities and use our capabilities properly. This “IC Governance Framework” establishes a set of rules that the IC follows as it conducts its activities, ensuring that we uphold our duties to the Constitution.

Transparency

Tuesday, October 04, 2016

Office of Civil Liberties, Privacy and Transparency

Transparency

The Principles of Intelligence Transparency for the Intelligence Community are intended to facilitate IC decisions on making information publicly available in a manner that enhances public understanding of intelligence activities, while continuing to protect information when disclosure would harm national security.

These Principles do not modify or supersede applicable laws, executive orders, and directives, including Executive Order 13526, Classified National Security Information. Instead, they articulate the general norms that elements of the IC should follow in implementing those authorities and requirements.

On October 27, 2015, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence published the implementation plan for the Principles of Intelligence Transparency for the Intelligence Community. The implementation plan sets intelligence community priorities for transparency, translating the principles into concrete, measurable initiatives.

Below are several useful documents related to the Transparency initiative:

The IC on the Record Transparency Tracker

Thursday, September 22, 2016

Office of Civil Liberties, Privacy and Transparency

The IC on the Record Transparency Tracker

ODNI’s Office of Civil Liberties, Privacy and Transparency (CLPT) created this “transparency tracker” document to track, categorize, and chart the information being released to the public on IC on the Record for the purpose of assisting the public in identifying and retrieving relevant information, facilitating research, and gauging the effectiveness of the IC’s transparency efforts since August 2013. Because IC on the Record is an important public outreach tool for the IC, analyzing the amount and types of information publicly released on IC on the Record provides a helpful and comprehensive way to assess the IC’s progress in enhancing transparency. Specifically, this transparency tracker consists of a series of statistical summary charts followed by a detailed index of documents.

Executive Order 12333 was originally issued by President Ronald Reagan in 1981. It was most recently revised and re-issued by President George W. Bush in 2008. The ODNI's Office of Civil Liberties, Privacy and Transparency (CLPT) originally prepared this information paper in August 2008 and made it available to interested members of the public, to describe the civil liberties and privacy protections incorporated in the 2008 revision of Executive Order12333. In August, 2013, CLPT reformatted the content of that original paper for posting on www.dni.gov.

Executive Order 13636, Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity, requires that senior agency officials for privacy and civil liberties assess the privacy and civil liberties impacts of the activities their respective departments and agencies have undertaken to implement the Executive Order, and to publish their assessments annually in a report compiled by the DHS Privacy Office and Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. This is the first of the required annual reports. It includes the DHS Privacy Office’s and Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties’ assessments of certain DHS activities under Section 4 of the Executive Order (enhanced threat information sharing with the private sector) as well as assessments conducted independently by the Department of the Treasury and the Departments of Defense, Justice, Commerce, Health and Human Services, Transportation, and Energy, and by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the General Services Administration. April 2014. 152 pages. Section on the ODNI can be found in pages 132-145.

Provides the Office of Civil Liberties, Privacy and Transparency’s (CLPT) strategic roadmap for enhancing the IC’s framework for protecting civil liberties and privacy, highlighting four high-level goals relating to civil liberties and privacy to obtain the trust of the American people. The goals focus on protecting civil liberties and privacy through policy implementation, ensuring compliance with the Constitution and laws, handling complaints of possible abuses of civil liberties, and providing transparency.

This Directive established Intelligence Community (IC) policy for the protection of civil liberties and privacy relating to activities conducted by IC elements and discusses the responsibilities of the Civil Liberties Protection Officer in supporting this Directive.

The IC draws much of its authority and guidance from the body of law contained in this collection. The Intelligence Community Legal reference bookis intended to be a useful resource to professionals across the federal government.

This guidance, issued by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Office of Civil Liberties, Privacy and Transparency, is intended for personnel working in the United States Intelligence Community (IC) who obtain and/or use information that is available to the general public.

This guidance, issued by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Office of Civil Liberties, Privacy and Transparency, is intended for personnel working in the United States Intelligence Community (IC) who obtain and/or use information that is available to the general public.

An information paper describing the civil liberties and privacy protections in the NCTC Guidelines for Access, Rention, Use, and Dissemination by the NCTC and Other Agencies of Information in Datasets Containing Non-Terrorism Information. This paper furthers one of the main goals under CLPT’s Civil Liberties & Privacy Enterprise Strategy – to provide transparency to mission partners, oversight bodies, Congress, and the American public.

NCTC’s first annual report to the ODNI General Counsel and Civil Liberties Protection Officer, as well as the IC Inspector General, on NCTC’s access, retention, use and dissemination of non-terrorism datasets, as required under NCTC’s revised 2012 Attorney General Guidelines.